“You are a human being and me, too. How can we appreciate the behavior of a person who killed 110,000 people, I ask you. The result of either chemical or other types of weapons is death. Then how can we appreciate this? I cannot imagine a person who appreciates this. I don’t think Mr. Kerry made such statement. If he made it, he would be contradicting himself,” Erdogan was reported as saying.

Erdogan, along with French President Francois Hollande, was one of the most staunch supporters of US military intervention in Syria following the August 21 chemical attack that took place in a suburb of Damascus, leaving hundreds dead.